President Obama easily won two more Democratic primaries on Tuesday, earning victories in largely uncontested contests in Kentucky and Arkansas, where he nevertheless faced a challenge from a perennial candidate.
The president has already secured the Democratic nomination, but continues to remain on the ballot as the party’s process winds toward a conclusion.
In Arkansas, Mr. Obama took 60 percent of the vote, with 40 percent going to a Tennessee lawyer, John Wolfe, who has run unsuccessfully several times for Congress and other posts in Tennessee. In Kentucky, Mr. Obama received about 58 percent of the vote, with the balance going to “uncommitted.”
Mr. Obama did not campaign in the states, both of which are considered solidly Republican in the general election. Earlier this month, an incarcerated felon won 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia’s Democratic primary.
Mitt Romney, who has all but secured the Republican nomination, also won his party’s primaries in the two states, earning 68.3 percent of the vote in Arkansas and 66.7 percent in Kentucky.
